Abstract

SOLORZA, Marcia. Financial Economic Reforms in Cuba. Rejoining Capitalism in an Age of Crisis. Prob. Des [online]. 2016, vol.47, n.185, pp.135-160. ISSN 0301-7036.

In the wake of the dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the disappearance of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON), and the flourishing of neoliberalism in a globalized and economically and financially deregulated world, Cuba, with a State-directed economy, has undertaken a series of reforms to begin its slow and complicated transition toward a new paradigm of capitalist development, which will permit it to sort out its domestic problems and deal with the global crisis. These transformations took off with the arrival of Raúl Castro to power and the reopening of political and diplomatic relations with the United States of America. To depict the current scenario, this paper introduces some general aspects of Cuba and analyzes them in the short-, medium-, and long-term scope of the economic reforms.

Keywords : Economic policy; financial reforms; neoliberalism; capitalist development; economic crisis.